Personal Details Born: 1 July 1877 in Penley, Flintshire, Wales. Family: He was the second of six children born to Thomas Prodger, a carter, and his wife Elizabeth Prodger. He married Ellen Woodhall in 1907 and together they had four …
St Alkmund’s Church is at the top of Bargate, Whitchurch, next to the site of the original Whitchurch Grammar School. At the west end of the Church is a triptych form war memorial with a central panel of …
The British War Medal (also known as ‘Squeak’) was a silver or bronze medal awarded to officers and men of the British and Imperial Forces who either entered a theatre of war or entered service overseas between 5th August 1914 …
I first started visiting the Battlefields, Cemeteries and Memorials of the Western Front some fifteen years ago. Three years ago I decided to research the names on the War Memorial in Station Road, that’s all they are names, carved …
Alfred Ernest Prodger, born in Ravens Yard, Whitchurch in 1898. He was the eldest son of Joseph and Elizabeth Prodger of 45 Egerton Road, Whitchurch. Alfred served with the Territorials in the Far East, before returning to France on the …